We had some violent thunder and rain last night and in the morning, the decks were a uniformly sandy brown. This must be African dust that the extremely warm airstream carried, deposited all over our boats. As an aside, I seem to recall from the dim and distant past a lecture in Chemical Oceanography, wherein it was shown just how important this depositing of dust is to the chemical make-up of oceanic waters and their subsequent usage in marine ecosystems. Well in our case we did our bit to help by hosing down the decks.

It was a lovely sunny day again as we bade our farewells to those boats that hadn't already gone, like migrating birds scattering . Our plan was to simply motor up the river Trave a ways and find an anchorage, which we did about 4 miles upriver, a lovely peaceful spot, with only one other, pretty as it happens, boat there. Once settled in, we sunbathed, swam (yes swam, encouraged and led by Helen and it was really very pleasant, as there were no medusa due to the freshness of the water and it was warm(ish), 21.5°C. Dinner consisted of salmon salad and after watching a really rather nice sunset, we were soon in bed, as we were quite tired after 4 days of Rallying. A really nice, wind-down day.

Speaking of Rally, Janet sent me some photos when she got home so I will incorporate them here, rather than retrospectively fitting them in to the correct days.